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Electricity costs add to miners’ woes
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Offset: Load-shedding forces mining companies to invest in cleaner renewable energy such as this solar field at Gold Fields mine in Westonaria. Photos: Dean Hutton/Getty Images & Luca Sola/Getty Images
Companies are also grappling with a decline in commodity prices and weaker global demand